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A new TV commercial was launched for Cadbury Dairy Milk (CDM). This ad is seen riding on the wave of popularity of “Pappu” and “Miss Palampur” campaigns, the new commercial seeks to extend and broaden the “kuch meetha ho jaaye” The campaign kick-started with a teaser in the first week of June 2007, [...]

 
Cannes Cyber Lions Shortlist has been announced and it features only one Indian finalist!
The Tribal DDB Protected Entry campaign for MTV has been shortlisted in the category Charities, Public Health & Safety, Public Awareness (C14).
Protected Entry was created in collaboration with MTV India to promote the cause of World Aids Day on 1st December 2006. [...]

Shivaji a Tamil movie that has just released has got an overwhelming response. in the south movie tickets have been booked for 3months. the movie has also has had an amazing responce from the mobile usres.
This movie (Sivaji) alone has the highest ever monotone (ringtone) downloads (50,000) in a day & over 2,00,000 monotone downloads just [...]

Political parties have started realizing the strength of the internet, the recent controversy around orkut bares evidence to the same. India has a high number of political parties that address (or tries to address) different problems faced in India. Most of these political parties have websites, which promote their party ideology. But most of these [...]

In the U.S there are several companies/operators providing sms based mobile social networking (dodgeball, Peekamo, Twitter etc)where users meet and make new friends from their mobile phones. Voice enabled social networks seem to getitng good attention from Indian operators like Reliance communication and Bharti.
Bharti has recently launched a voice enabled social network that allows [...]

Figure the answer to the above question and you might have a real successful online venture in India.
Came across this interview of Vineet Buch in today’s edition of Live Mint. I would call it a must read for everyone interested the Online scene in India, especially guys from young start-ups.
Who is Vineet Buch?An IIT Kanpure [...]

 
Tata Indicom have launched Mobile Internet Radio, offering live streaming radio-casts in English, Hindi, Telegu, Tamil and other international languages with MP3 quality sound.
They have teamed up has teamed with 41 global international and local radio stations. The service brings together content from major international music, news and sports and Indian radio stations, including Bloomberg, [...]

YouTube has unveiled two new features: YouTube Mobile and YouTube Remixer along with a host of cosmetic modifications.
YouTube Mobile, is available at m.youtube.com. You will be greeted by an ominous warning page:
"Information: YouTube Mobile is a data intensive application. We highly recommend that you upgrade to an unlimited data plan with your mobile service provider [...]

 
MSN have revamped their Mobile website. Its much like their MSN homepage but does not have too much detail (there is also no need for detail). Users can access their email, chat using messenger, look up maps, get stock updates, read latest news. Weather, finance, msn spaces etc
It’s a one stop shop for all your basic [...]

Just a little Monday morning humour:

Well on a serious note, Facebook is no way as popular as Orkut in India. But it’s catching up.The geeky junta is slowly shifting to Facebook. A lot has to do with the plethora of options Facebook throws at you – especially ever since they opened up their [...]

Like last two times.. Here we are back again with our sunday recap which features news we missed from last week but which is worth mentioning..

Kreeda gaming portal gets venture funding .. More
Bill desk looks at Mobile payments .. More
Cleartrip launches forum for customer complaints .. More
Rediff launches ringback tone search .. More
Makemytrip opens office [...]

Firstly a big sorry to all readers for not being able to Live blog Blogcampune. No excuses but only reasons for our laziness.. We were hounded by journalists who wanted to know more about Corporate blogging, Revenue from Blogging, WATConsult and what it does, the announcement of Rediff Blogshowcase and lastly the lack of power in [...]

Hi to all Our Readers, as tomorrow the entire team of WATBlog will be attending the  Blog camp Pune (bloggers meet) we would be blogging LIVE from the venue.
HUNGAMA Wins  at the Meffy
We had recently blogged about hungama mobile being nominated in two award categories - Best content  for its Kingfisher Mobile Calender and Best Marketing [...]

Times online, UK published a list of 50 best business blogs. Corporate and anti-corporate alike. The list include blogs which made companies review policies after Campaigns by bloggers (especially Jeff javirs war against Dell and a blog set up by a disgruntled Land Rover owner)
No clue what methodology Times followed or which blog is [...]

 
 
Aol recently launched a website called Switched.com. it’s a Gadget and tech related website. The UI is good. Everything is clearly categorized making it easy to navigate.  They have separate categories like camera, audio/video, Cell phones etc. the talk about the latest gadgets, tech stuff and latest news revolving around such similar companies.  Although it [...]